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“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Sometimes it is all too loud.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I like checking days off a calendar—151 days crossed and nothing truly horrible has happened. 152 and the world isn’t ruined. 153 and I haven’t destroyed anyone. 154 and no one really hates me. Sometimes I think I won’t ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don’t have to worry about life anymore.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible."
"Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

“Hi Sandy, I won!”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

“Angela could not be the bomber, not that sweet, pretty thing. Thing? Is that how she regarded that young woman, as a thing? And what had she ever said to her except "I hear you're getting married, Angela" or "How pretty you look, Angela." Had anyone asked her about her ideas, her hopes, her plans? If I had been treated like that I'd have used dynamite, not fireworks; no, I would have just walked out and kept right on going. But Angela was different.”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

“Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

“Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

“You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

“Angela Wexler, person”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

“Jake Wexler, standing or sitting when not lying down”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

“Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. I, Samuel W. Westing, hereby swear that I did not die of natural causes. My life was taken from me–by one of you!”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

“So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“ART (aka Asshole Research Transport)”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“I felt this would be the point where a human would sigh, so I sighed.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“This place was creepy. I reminded myself that the terrible thing that had most likely happened here was me. Somehow that didn’t help.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“When constructs were first developed, they were originally supposed to have a pre-sentient level of intelligence, like the dumber variety of bot. But you can’t put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Now that I knew something was hacking the security cameras to watch me, I could use countermeasures. I probably should have been doing that from the beginning, but as you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“The systems of constructs are inherently inferior to advanced bots, but you aren’t stupid. Yeah, well, fuck you, too, I thought, and initiated a shutdown sequence.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Humans are nervous of me because I'm a terrifying murderbot, and I'm nervous of them because they're humans.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“I guess you can’t tell a story from the point of view of something that you don’t think has a point of view.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“I said: "Sometimes people do things to you that you can’t do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on."

They all stopped talking and stared at me.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Are all constructs so illogical? said the Asshole Research Transport with the immense processing capability whose metaphorical hand I had had to hold because it had become emotionally compromised by a fictional media serial.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“I wanted to keep me the way I was.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Archer isn't hot anymore.... He tried to kill me, and his girlfriend is Satan.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Hex Hall

“Now, Sophia, would you care to tell me why you're here by the pond instead of reporting to your next class?'

'I'm experiencing some teenage angst, Mrs. Casnoff,' I answered. 'I need to, like, write in my journal or something.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Hex Hall